Saturday, 18 May 2013

How to Prepare a New Clustered ONTAP Node with a DOT Patch Release

In this post we run through obtaining and installing a
Data ONTAP patch release prior to doing a cluster join. In this example we are
joining a two-node cluster running 8.1.2P1. The newly delivered nodes have
8.1.2 and require raising to the 8.1.2P1 patch level before cluster join.

Scroll down to the bottom of the list of products, and
‘To access a specific’

From the drop-down select ‘Data ONTAP’ and manually type
in the P-version 8.1.2P1

Image: Obtaining
Data ONTAP P (Patch) Release

Read the bugs fixed, take heed of the cautions, accept
understanding of any issues described, and proceed to download the 812P1_q_image.tgz.

Note i: There is
just one q image which covers all FAS series with CDOT or 7DOT.

Note ii: FYI
current - at time of writing - latest 8.1.2 P-Release is 8.1.2P4.

How to Install
the Data ONTAP Patch on a New System

Connected to the serial
port …

Boot the controller, and where you see:

NetApp Data ONTAP 8.1.2 Cluster-Mode

******************************

* Press Ctrl-C for Boot Menu *

******************************

Hit Ctrl-C

Note: From the line
‘… ONTAP 8.1.2 …’ above, we can see this isn’t running a patch release (if it
was it would ‘… ONTAP 8.1.2PX …’)

From the Boot Menu select:

(7) Install new software first

Follow through the prompts as below (with example inputs
in green):

This procedure is not support for
Non-Disruptive Upgrade on an HA pair. The software will be installed to the
alternative image, from which the node is not currently running. Do you want to
continue? y

Select the network port you want to use for
the download? e0a

The node needs to reboot for this setting to
take effect. Reboot now? y

REBOOTS

Follow through the prompts as below:

Enter the IP address for port e0a: 10.0.0.101

Enter the netmask for port e0a: 255.255.0.0

Enter IP address of default gateway: 10.0.0.2

What is the URL of the package? http://10.0.0.15/812P1_q_image.tgz

What is the user name on “10.0.0.15”, if any?

Note: Here you’ll
need a web server running (like HFS) with the package presented as in the image
below (there is no user name for HFS.)

Image: HFS and the
P-release package URL.

If all’s good, the text ‘Installation complete’ will be
received, and the prompts below follow on:

Do you want to set the newly installed
software as the default to be used for subsequent reboots? y

Do you want to reboot now? y

REBOOTS

And that’s pretty much it !

On the reboot it will load as:

NetApp Data ONTAP 8.1.2P1 Cluster-Mode

To verify, from the DOT CLI, you can run:

system node run -node localhost version

Note: It is fine to
‘exit’ or ‘quit’ the Cluster Setup script and run later. The default username
is admin with no password.

Further reading:

Check out this post
from March 2013 - ‘How to Setup a Clustered ONTAP Cluster Without Using Cluster
Setup Wizard’